The Expanse: Ships

Guanshiyin

Owner/Navy: Jules-Pierre Mao BoType: Passenger Transport

The Guanshiyin is Jules-Pierre Mao’s yacht.

Although it’s the size of ships that normally transport two hundred people, it only has a dozen staterooms. Each suite of rooms take up nearly an entire deck of the ship, and each room have its own private bath, media center, game room, and a lounge with a full bar and a large screen showing the view outside. The ship also has a mural of a horse on its hull, painted in color.

Weeping Somnambulist

Owner/Navy: Melissa & Santichai SupitayapornType: Food Freighter

The Weeping Somnambulist is a Ceres-registered food freighter which spent twenty years delivering food from Ganymede to Ceres prior to the Ganymede incident. It is currently a registered relief ship. The ship was nearly a hundred years old and at the end of her life cycle.It has a two-person crew. It is unarmed. The ship is approximately 150 meters or 450 feet long.

Canterbury

Owner/Navy: Pur’n’Kleen Water CompanyType: Water Hauler

A century ago it was a transport ship for colonists to the Belt, but it has been retooled as a water hauler, shuttling glaciers from Saturn’s rings to the colonies along with dozens of similar ships.

It has a roughly tubular shape, and is about 750 meters long and 250 meters wide. It has at least one shuttle, the Knight.

Rocinante

Originally called the Tachi, the ship was stationed as a fleet escort vessel and torpedo bomber on the Martian navy vessel Donnager.

According to the novels this vehicle has an initial acceleration of 0.25g and a DeltaV of 5933km/s. With 1.1 MN (1 Epstein Drive) of thrust that gives a wet mass of 407.9 metric tons and with an Isp of 1,100,000s (again, Epstein Drive) that gives a dry mass of 235.3 metric tons.